Thomas Tipton

Thomas Tipton (5 August 1817-26 November 1899) was a US Senator from Nebraska (R) from 1 March 1867 to 3 March 1875, preceding Algernon S. Paddock.

Biography
Thomas Tipton was born in Cadiz, Ohio in 1817, and he became a lawyer in 1844. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a year later, and he moved his law practice to McConnelsville, Ohio in 1853. He became a Methodist minister in 1856, and he served as a US Army chaplain during the American Civil War. Tipton went on to serve as one of Nebraska's inaugural US Senators from 1867 to 1875, voting in favor of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment, but later falling out with Ulysses S. Grant's administration. He launched a failed gubernatorial bid in 1880, and he died in Washington DC in 1899.